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Ester Karen Aida

Aug 20, 2018, 10:24 PM

I’ve Never Been There: the Book of Hours

...I’ve never been in Peking, or the Summer Palace, nor stood on the great Stone Boat to watch the rain begin on Kuen Ming Lake, the picnickers running away in the grass. But I love to hear it sung; how the waterlilies fill with...

Aug 16, 2018, 12:35 AM

You can’t be the reason I’m having trouble paying my electric bill today

Electric Bill having trouble paying my electric bill today, It’s not because of another drained swamp in the guise of my account Not because i'm with Inaya in Gaza, i tell you-- this, I am-- but because by the skin of my teeth...

Aug 12, 2018, 9:05 PM

Parshat Re’eh in The Trauma Unit

"Is the shofar ever sounded in the city and the people do not tremble?" (Amos 3:6)
photo: Ester Karen Aida. After E. L. Friefeld,

Rosh Hodesh Elul: Call to Prayer

Aug 8, 2018, 4:56 PM

Hoarfrost Shining in Leaves of Grass

Utagawa Hiroshige, "Snow Falling on Town" 1840, woodcut. (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Jerusalem's Gay Pride and Tolerance March, at a Distance What words are there for this, the mute persistence of snow as it settles over the city, falling now on a road outside my window, a spider’s trace from the beauteous Acre coast, to a house...

Aug 6, 2018, 11:46 AM

The Apparent Idleness of Cemeteries

"The Heart prepares a Tomb for those Dead to Themselves," fused plastic bags, paper, 2014

A foray into fields of conflict, killing fields, and 'overwhelming silence'

About Me

Ester Karen Aida received the gift of a heart transplant at Hadassah - Ein Karem from a Palestinian mom in 2009. She has arranged dialogue meetings for the Dati-Leumi sector in coordination with NVC - Bethlehem. A mother of six, she lives in Jerusalem. More poems -- a meditative practice -- on FB.